Trump is using a thoughtful evenhanded approach to spread oil on these troubled waters. First he offers some virtual red meat to the young useful idiots while snatching the agenda talking points from the Poputnik agitators organizing the demonstrations. This leaves the agitators with only the unpopular gun banning agenda to chase. None of the background checks or bump stocks ban are infringements on a right but the age limit of 21 certainly is and will be contested. The GOP seems willing to discuss these changes if the conflict over concealed-carry can be addressed at the same time.
The President then quickly redirected the discussion back to the local dimension the only place that matters when seeking better security for our schools. Having an integral force of 10 to 20 trained and armed professionals, in each school, would eliminate most threats and it wouldn't disrupt the budgets like a seperate security force would.

As a gun owner I know how difficult it is to aim a pistol and to consider who else might be in the line of fire. Especially in an active shooter situation. Some years ago I watched some videos of an experiment with an armed teacher or student in a classroom. Armed with a paint gun. Even knowing that at some point a shooter would enter the classroom and being prepared the shooter still shot several students before the teacher or student could retrieve the weapon. Often the teacher missed the shooter, accidentally shot other students, or was shot before she could shoot the assailant. This in a test where there was no actual fear of getting killed. Even police or military who are much more extensively trained can panic in an active shooter situation. Gun battles are much more chaotic and difficult than most imagine. It's not at all like in the movies. Arming teachers is not an effective solution to this problem.

But what you say here compared to what he has just tweeted, about training, that is just more proof that he really isn't a gun person.

For all these reasons, I think it's possible that he really could end up supporting some control measures it all depends upon which way the winds blow. If protests take the right tack and don't ally with too much other liberal agenda, The poll numbers are just so incredibly high for more controls, I find it hard to believe he will fly contrarian in the face of that. This is different from the Dreamers thing, and he even vacillates on that.

I forgot my main reason for making this assumption:He has consistently not just supported but lauded local law enforcement, clearly that is one thing he sees that as a win win. He's gone to ridiculous heights on that. They are a demographic highly supportive of lots of gun control!

Conversely, it doesn't appear to me that he really gets the tie in of the extreme 2nd Amendment maniacs with the anti-deep-state crowd that is part of his base, the anti-Federal crowd, how the passionate 2nd amendment people want the right to protect against jack booted thugs taking over the government. (Probably because he doesn't care about understanding Constitutional principles.) He doesn't see how law enforcement is often their enemy.

I think it's entirely possible he may end up siding with the "Nazis" who "want to take away the guns," is what I am saying. It may end up being an existential crisis, but then again, he's not capable of being that deep? Which group of fans to keep, which to toss, is probably more like it. Isn't that a no brainer with polls saying 90%+ want more gun control?

The idea is to stop the shooter from even thinking about a school as an easy target. The teacher security corp would be in a continuing training program probably run by the FBI. There are always risks but this idea produces a known trusted group of adults to directly protct the students and it can be developed quickly.

You propose to do this in every school? Isn’t it likely that things like fist fights between students could be resolved by gun shots rather than breaking up the fight physically if 10- 20 teachers are now armed. Seems like a recipe for disaster. The more aggressive teachers are the ones more likely to want to be armed.

I don't believe most mass shooters are looking for soft targets. Most target the place and people who they feel they have grievances. Some men go to their work place and kill their colleages. Some men feel they have a grievance with their wife or girlfriend. They target her home and family, or they target her work places and work friends, or they go to her church and kill her and other parishioners. They don't go to the local school just because it's a soft target. Most school shooters go to the school they attended because they feel they have a grievance there.

I also don't believe that arming teachers will make schools less of a soft target. Let's look at the most recent school shooting. Cage pulled a fire alarm to get crowds of students into the hall ways. Cage could have missed every target he aimed at and still have killed 17 people and injured dozens. If he missed his target the bullet would likely have hit the person standing to the left of him or some person 20 yards farther down the hallway. Cage didn't even have to aim, he could just spray bullets down the hall way.

Even if there was a highly trained armed teacher in the hall way he could have been 20 yards away standing in a crowd of students coming out of his classroom with crowds of students coming out of classrooms between him and the shooter. He'd have to spot the shooter through that crowd and hit that individual target without hitting any of the students in the hall way between. An extremely difficult if not impossible shot. Practicing at a gun range doesn't prepare you for this.

Most mass shooters want to die. They have already decided to commit suicide by cop. They just want to take as many people as possible with them. There's an incredible power that comes from deciding to die, there's no fear. The shooter can walk down that hall way spraying bullets without caring if anyone is shooting back. Where as those defending the school want to live. As bullets come towards them the instinct is to duck or hide. It's hard to calmly take aim and fire. The adrenalin kicks in with the fear. Their hand shakes. They really don't want to kill anyone. It's hard to kill someone who deserves it let alone one of the innocent students in the hallway. They are even more careful and slow to fire at the intended target. If some student in the crowed chaotic hallway moves in front of the bullet they are even more reluctant and more careful to take the next shot.

Think carefully about the details. Imagine it in your mind if you were an armed teacher coming out into that hallway and discovering it wasn't a fire drill but an active shooter situation. I think anyone who plays out the details in a step by step fashion telling the full story would realize that arming teachers would rarely if ever be a useful response to school shootings.

By Thursday morning, however, Trump's mood had turned to anger — not at the cruelty of the students' situation but at the way the media had reported something he said during the session.

I never said “give teachers guns” like was stated on Fake News @CNN & @NBC. What I said was to look at the possibility of giving “concealed guns to gun adept teachers with military or special training experience - only the best. 20% of teachers, a lot, would now be able to

....immediately fire back if a savage sicko came to a school with bad intentions. Highly trained teachers would also serve as a deterrent to the cowards that do this. Far more assets at much less cost than guards. A “gun free” school is a magnet for bad people. ATTACKS WOULD END!

Our postmodern neo-Marxists can't tolerate an idea that might produce security for students and deter criminals. Insted of discussing it they distort and confuse so they can return to their agenda of attacking our individual rights to further their sick plans for the future.
Trump can bypass the fake news media and has the ear of 50 million Americans who won't be herded like those who listen to these commies.

Trump is right. But teachers with Glocks are no match for a teen with an assault weapon and a huge magazine. The teachers wouldn't stand a chance.

Hardening must first include placing wireless armed mines in all school hallways, exits and entrances. Once armed, shooters would not be able to move without blowing off a foot or leg. Anti-personnel rockets, in critical locations, remotely armed and targeted from school district headquarters, would be absolutely awesome.

After the shooter is disabled, bleeding and down, then the teachers could execute the coup de grass with a shot in the neck to sever the spinal column.

Arming the teachers is a waste since there are so few teachers, and so many students. If schools would arm the students that would be effective. One bad guy shooter one thousand good guy students with guns. They could hand out the guns in the morning home room and turn them in during the last class of the day.

Mechanical Arts could armor the hall walls and doors for shooting practice. The kids could blow off 100 round mags with bump stocks down hallway free fire zones, it could also give the less academic types reason to not drop out.

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